About this book
Although much information and experience in landfill design and operation has been obtained in recent years, only a few meet the current standards for an environmentally acceptable landfill. In view of the increasing public awareness and new scientific understanding of waste disposal problems, the standards for landfilling of waste may improve even further in the years to come. In view of this great demand for information on landfills, a series of international reference books on landfilling of waste was established. The first book dealt with leachate, the strongly contaminated wastewater developing in landfills. Aspects such as landfill hydrology, leachate characterization and composition, factors controlling leachate quality, principles of leachate treatment and effects of leachate in groundwater are discussed in great detail. This book, the second in the series, deals with lining and leachate collection. After an introductory chapter presenting the various issues of lining and drainage, aspects such as design and construction of lining systems, properties and quality control of clay and synthetic materials, geotextiles and geogrids, and finally drainage and collectio systems are discussed in detail. Scientists working in the fields of environmental engineering, civil/geotechnical engineering, sanitary engineering, waste management, academics, consultants, and landfill operating companies will all find this book of interest.
Contents
Introduction. Principles of landfill lining - Cossu, Stegmann; Engineering of landfill lining leachate collection systems - Cossu; Quality control assurance for lining and leachate collection systems - Cossu, Andreottola; Lining systems: design and construction. Experiences with liners using natural materials - Farquhar ; Geotechnical design and quality control of linear systems - Jessberger; Quality control of clay liners - Seymour, Peacock; Leakage in double lined systems: the contaminated objective - Wallace, Akgun; Concept of a double mineral base liner - Wagner; Design options for hydraulic control of leachate diffusion - Rowe; Hydrological studies on the effectiveness of different multilayered landfill caps - Melchior, Miehlich; The "capillary barrier" for surface capping - Bonin, Barres; Failure mechanisms for clay cover liners - Miller, Mishra; Geosynthetics for surface capping - Hoekstra, Berkhout; Design considerations of a new liner system over an existing landfill - Dayal, Gardner, Chiado; Construction of composite lining systems under unfavourable weather conditions - Biener, Sasse; Properties and quality control of clay materials. Effect of organic liquids on the hydraulic conductivity of natural clays - Quigley, Fernandez; Diffusive transport of pollutants through clay liners - Rowe; Moisture behaviour of soil liners and subsoil beneath landfills - Holzlohner; Effects of leachate on permeability of sand-bentonite mixture - Cancelli, Cossu, Malpei, Offredi; Centrifuge modelling of subsidence effects on clay barriers - Jessberger, Guettler, Stone; Properties and quality control of synthetic materials. Basic composition and properties of synthetic materials in lining systems - Haxo, Haxo; Quality control of flexible HPDE liners - Cadwallader, Barker; Standard tensile test for geomembranes - Gourc, Perrier, Leclerq, Benneton; Assessment of HPDE geomembrane seams - Rollin, Vidovic, Ciubotariu; Laboratory-ageing of geomembranes in municipal landfill leachates - Artieres, Gousse, Prigent; Testing program to assure the durability of geomembranes - Peggs; Performance changes in aged in-situ HPDE geomembrane - Rollin, Mlynarek, Lafleur, Zanescu; Geotextiles and geogrids. Efficiency of geotextiles and geocomposites in landfill drainage systems - Cazzuffi, Cossu; Permeability models for non-woven geotextiles - Mlynarek, Lafleur, Rollin, Lewandowski; Use of geotextiles for the protection of geomembranes - Kirschner, Witte; Geogrids: properties and landfill applications - Chouery-Curtis, Butchko; Performance tests for geosynthetics - Faure, Gourc, Pelte, Suryolelono; Leachate drainage and collection. Design criteria for leachate drainage and collection systems - Lechner; Hydrau
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